Long thread alert 🧵 1. We've just launched the Free Movement Toolkit: four new tools designed to make immigration law research faster and more practical for lawyers, caseworkers, and anyone working in the sector. 2. Colin Yeo has built this suite of tools over the past few months using AI-assisted development. All four are currently in beta and free to access for a limited period before becoming member-only. 3. The Immigration Knowledge Engine takes natural language questions and searches a database of 1,000 Home Office caseworker guidance documents plus key statutes. It highlights relevant passages and provides deep links to the originals on gov.uk. 4. The Immigration Case Explorer works similarly but for case law. It searches around 6,600 immigration cases, weighing cross-citations, positive or negative treatment, and court seniority to produce a ranked hierarchy of results. 5. The Immigration Policy Tracker monitors Home Office caseworker guidance for changes and automatically generates tracked-changes diffs and AI summaries. It has been backfilled for three years and now includes inspection reports and parliamentary sources. 6. The Immigration Rules Browser lets you browse the immigration rules going back to HC 395 in 1994. You can compare any version to its predecessor and see when specific paragraphs were changed or inserted. A major resource for researchers. 7. These tools use conventional semantic search against defined, regularly updated databases rather than generating answers from training data. That means results are current and verifiable, though they should be treated as a starting point, not the final word. 8. All four tools are free to access this week. We welcome feedback after real-world use via the in-app buttons or by emailing editor@freemovement.org.uk. Access will move to members only shortly.
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